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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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rican, ex-cept that it is =omewhat smaller andits fur is coarser. Upon a large farm in Michigan vis-ited by the writer this summer ran acreek where the chickens, when thetrough was dry—and dry it usually was—traveled to get a drink. In the bankof the creek a mink made his home,and not a week passed that one or morehens did not appear in the barnyardcrippled or mangled in a manner pain-ful to behold—painful, that is, to thevisitor, but not apparently to the farm-er, who only said: Its that darnedmink; some day, when I have time, Illset a trap and catch him, and so wentcoolly on his way, leaving the poormaimed creatures to drag out a painfulexistence for days or weeks, hopingthat nature would heal the woundsmade by the mink. Aside from the lack of thrift thusshown by the farmer—for the hens^when badly mangled, in time suc-cumbed—the inhumane aspect of thecase never seemed to strike him. Thecultivation of his fields left no timefor cultivating the finer feelings of theheart. 74
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THE NEW SPORT. JOHN WINTHROP SCOTT. IN THE early days every man andboy knew how to use a gun. Itwas a necessity of life. It broughtin meat for the family. The regu-lar business of every holiday was to goto the woods and kill. The free life ofthe woods, the pleasure of rangingabout for a purpose, and the excite-ment attending success in bagging gamewere among their greater pleasures. Now we live in cities mainly. Eventhe country boy has less regard for thegun. The game and many of the birdsand animals that are not game havebeen killed off, so that country boysnow wish to give them a chance fortheir lives. Probably the worst mur-derers of songsters and innocent ani-mals are the ignorant city youths whoget only a day or two in the woods in ayear. Guns have been improved to suchan extent that whether the gunnerhas any skill or not everything insight can be killed because of therapidity of fire and the number ofchances for killing. A gun has beeninvented which pours a steady streamof rapid

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